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Many Bridges Said Too Low To Permit Passage of Missiles Washington -tt!PD A House investigator charged today that thousands of bridges built under the interstate highway program are too low to permit passage of the Atlas intercontinental missile and other important weapons. Rep. Jim Wright (D-Tex.) made the statement as a House Public Works subcom mittee opened hearings on the highway program by calling D. Ken Chacey, assistant chief of Army transportation. Subcommittee members said they wanted to question Chacey on why the Defense Department waited for more than two years to establish its minimum requirements I o r the highways. Chairman John A. Blatnik (R-Minn.) sah that a larger number of overpasses were constructed with a 14 to 15 foot clearance before the De fense Department decided it needed a 16-foot minimum. Other congressional news: Defense: Sen. Stuart Sy mington (D-Rlo.) planned to ask Defense Secretary Thom as S. Gates Jr. whether the Russian missile threat was downgraded in setting the new U.S. military budget. Symington threatened in ad vance to make public secret intelligence estimates of Rus sian missile power if the ad ministration denied that the Soviet rocket threat was greater than ever. Sewage plants: Congress drove to approve its first ma jor bill of the session by night fall and send it on to Presi dent Eisenhower for an ex pected veto. The measure would raise from $500 million JAMES CROW created the first modern bourbon 1835 favorite today. 32Pt5 Vs Qt. Light' Mild -S6 Proof KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY 010 CROW DISTILLERY fjO.. FRANKFORT. ronger-zM wris FUNERAL DIRECTORS "Your TV WEATHERMAN" KBES-TV Monday thru Friday e:00 p.m. Member to S900 million the ceiling on federal grants to help local communities build sewage disposal plants. Governor Said Not Opposed lo Seashore Plan Salem -(UPD-The governor's committee on natural re sources denied Monday that Gov. Mark Hatfield has failed to take a stand on the Oregon Dunes seashore controversy. Jack Hayes, Florence, chair man of the Western Lane Taxpayers Association, said the governor has "not taken a personal stand on the pro posed seashore but has passed the buck to his committee on natural resources . . . we peo ple in the Florence area would like to know where he stands." Dan P. Allen, executive secretary of the committee, said "contrary to general be lief neither the committee nor the governor has at any time opposed the idea of a nation al seashore in Oregon." Allen reiterated that a compromise bill drawn up by the commit tee and' Hatfield and intro duced in congress by Sen, Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore is considered minimum re quirements" by the state for creation of a national park in the Florence-Reedsport area, The new bill gives the state more say-so in the park'; establishment, Allen pointed out that since Hatfield is chairman of the committee, this is his "per- ' sonal" stand on the issue. TASTE THE GREATNESS ;of-.;-:7:-----;" Vv James Crowds Masterpiece CR)W Born 124 years ago. Americas noarl Si: KY..DISTR. BY NATIONAL DIST. PROD. CO. Floral Tributes Their beauty is greatly enhanced by our spe cial design in construction in the completely re-decorated downtown chapel. National Selected Morticians by Invitation Immiiiimimiim MiMiiif'-lim iii ml M J-hs -fti,,. , i in VOLCANO IN ACTION This dramatic aerial photo of Puna volcano spewing lava into the air was made early today by a Queen's Decision On Surname Irks British Press London (UPD Queen Eliza beth's sentimental decision to attach her husband's adopted German surname to that of the House of Windsor was openly criticized in the Bri tish press today. In a front-page editorial, the Daily Mirror said the Queen's announcement, on the eve of her third child's birth, to perpetuate Prince Philip's adopted surname of Mountbatten "will not be applauded by the British people. The Queen announced from Buckingham Palace Monday night that all her descendants who will not be either a royal prince or princess will bear the name Mountbatten- Windsor. Name for Grandsons This means that the first royal descendants to use the new title insead of the pres ent family name of Windsor probably will be the second grandson of Prince Charles, now 11, and the grandsons of any other son the Queen may have. All of London's newspapers except the Times emphasized the Germanic origins of the Mountbatten name, which Philip got from his mother's side. It was Anglicized in World War I, when Philip's grandfather. Prince Louis of Battenberg, lost his position as Britain's first sea lord be cause of anti-German feeling. Battenberg became Mount batten. The Queen's own family changed its house name from Wettin to Windsor in 1917 in order to cut connections with German royalty. Fuse, Metal Bits ied To Explosions Oregon City-(UPD-A section of a fuse and bits of metal have been turned over to the state crime laboratory for study in connection with the Jan. 31 dynamiting of six trucks here. . They were turned over to the laboratory by Oregon City Police Chief C. D. New man. Newman said heavy rains over the week end ap parently uncovered the fuse and metal bits. They were found by Harold Young, Oregon City police man, and Gene Wymore, own er of the damaged trucks. Four other trucks were dynamited in northwest Port land the same night of the Oregon City explosions. Newman said the evidence was the only thing new in the case since the explosion. Children in Britain start the secondary school stage at about 11 years of age. Dowtown Chapel West Main at Sixth Hilicrest Memorial Park and Chapel North Phoenix Road Ashland Mortuary 4th & C Sts., Ashland MEDFORD Regional Edition Stocks Regain Part Of Monday Decline New York (UPD Stocks re covered nearly half of Mon day's sharp decline during the first hour today. Industrials, which closed off more than 7 Monday, showed a gain of 3.40. American To bacco with a gain of 2 and Westinghouse with a gain of 1 helped pull the average up in the initial trading. Electronics were . among the better performers show ing gains of more than 2 in General Time and more than 4 in International Business Machines. Jones & Laughlin and Youngstown added more than a point in the steel where Bethlehem firmed and Republic eased. DOW-JONES AVERAGES: New York "- !CPD - Dow Jones closing stock av erages: 30 industrial 619.43, off 7.34; 20 railroads 149.74, off 1.76: 15 utilities 85.49, off 0.26, and 65 stocks 205. 20, off 2.08. Sales Monday were about 3.350.000 shares compared with 2,530.000 shares Friday. Monday's prices on selected AUied Chemical (xd) 47 Y Alum Co. Am. 93 American Can 40 American Motors . . 81 AT&T Silt Anaconda Copper 59 't Armco Steel 63 Bendix Aviation . Bethlehem Steel .. Boeing Air (xd) Caterpillar Corp. Chrysler Corp . 69 "s , 49 4 . 28'i . 30 'i , 604 . 42 i . 47 25 89 230 Vx . 96 123'2 Continental Can Crown Zellerbach Curtiss Wright Dow Chemical . Du Pont Eastman Kodak . Firestone General Electric 88 General Foods 101: General Motors (xd) 47 Unander Denies Interests in Steamship Firms Washington-flJPD Former Oregon State Treasurer Sig Unander said Monday he held no interests whatsoever in any steamship" firm. Unander, who recently was named to the Federal Mari time Board, was questioned by Sen. Bob Bartlett (D-Alas-ka), a member of the Senate Commerce committee which is considering the appoint ment. Bartlett said he had no doubt that Unander would be confirmed but that he ' was "now taking the brunt of criticism for all the misdeeds of the maritime board in the past." No Connections ' Unander said he appreciat ed the reasonableness and propriety of Bartlett's inquiry and was glad to "give, him complete satisfaction in this matter." He said he held no direct or indirect connections "of the remotest degree with the steamship industry or any fi nancial connection with any allied or subordinate activity of the shipping industry." He said if he had he would have divested himself of any in terest before coming to Wash ington. Bartlett had been critical of Unander's recent . attend ance at a Portland reception he said was sponsored by numerous shipping firms. We Give GREEN STAMPS CENTRAL REX ALL DRUG Main and Central U. S. Coast Guard photographer flying aboard a Hawaiian Air National Guard plane. (UPI Telephoto) .Tribune Page 2 Georgia Pacific 45', Graham Paige Greyround ..j. 2,i 2oy2 31 Gulf Oil (xd) Homestake Mining 40T' Idaho Power 46 'i I. B. M 416 i,i Int. Paper 115 ',2 Johns Manville 46 Vb Katy : 5 Kennecott Copper 90 Lockheed Aircraft ... 27 Montana Power Co. .... 23 Montgomery Ward 47 '4 Nat'l Biscuit 537 New York Central 27a Pac Gas & Elec 62 Penney. J. C 116 Penn RR 15 4 Radio Corporation Richfield Oil Safeway 60 77 36', sears 45', Shell Oil 35 'i Socony Mobil Oil 39 Southern Co 40 ',2 Southern Pacific 21 Vz Standard California .. . 45 Standard Indiana 43 'i Standard N.J 46 " Sun Mines 6 Texas Co 76 'i Texas Gulf Sulfur 17 Tex Pac Land Trust 15 Transamerica 27 Trans World Air 14 Tri-Continental 36 '.i Union Carbide . 136 V2 Union Pacific 29 i United Aircraft 37 United Air Lines . 29 ',i U. S. Rubber 55 'i U. S. Steel -B6V2 Youngstown S & T 118 Romances Spotlight Finch Murder Trial Los Angeles (UPD Dr. R. Bernard Finch, who has ad mitted being intimate with at least three women prior to the slaying of his estranged wife, today faces prosecution cross-examination about the details of how he killed Mrs. Barbara Jean Finch. . It was romance day at the sensational murder trial Mon day and Finch took the occa sion to wittily characterize himself as a sophisticated man of the world. The spectators liked his wise-cracks about his intima cies with two married women and a divorcee, but whether the jury felt the same ap preciation remained to be seen. , Mrs. X, Mrs. Y The 42 year-old doctor went into detail about his love af fair with Carole Tregoff, 23, his red - haired co-defendant for the murder of Barbara Jean, 36, at the luxurious West Covina home of the Finches last July 18. Finch admitted without an outward trace of embarrass ment previous love affairs with two other women, iden tified as Mrs. X and Mrs. Y, beginning in 1953. The point made by prosecutor Fred N. Whichello was that, at one time, Finch was cheating both on his wife and a mistress in behalf of Carole. Today Whichello will at Edmund E. Hass Vice-President .CIFIC NORTHWEST IjOMPANT Six 1!J SUITE 303, FLUHRER BLDG. PHONE SP 3-7319 5 SOUTH CENTRAL AVENUE Consult With Mr. Hass on Investment and Retirement Programs Using Hie Securities of . . . Utilities . Banks Insurance Industrial 1 Mutual Fund Shares Other offices in Portland, Salem, Eugene, Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, Aberdeen, Bellingham, Yakima, Wenatchee and Walla Walla. Eisenhower Likes Benson's Wheat Plan (Continued from Page 1) Eisenhower dealt mainly with the problem of solving the wheat surplus. He said he prefers the plan drafted by Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson to reduce wheat supports and eliminate pro duction controls. But he said he would accept whatever "constructive" plan Congress enacts. "Whatever the legislative approach- . . it must be sen sible and economically sound, and not a political poultice," Eisenhower declared. Wanls Quick Action The President, said quick action is necessary , "to avoid visiting havoc upon the very people this program is intend ed to help." -, Pointing out that the gov ernment is spending $1,500,- 000 each day $1,000 every minute to stabilize wheat prices . alone, the President said unless . constructive ac tion is taken promptly "the danger is very real that this entire program will' collapse under the .jressure of public indignation." The framework Eisenhower laid out for a compromise wheat bill appeared broad enough to cover production curbing plans which the ad ministration rejected last year in its effort to push the Ben son program. Message Held Up The message, which had been scheduled to reach Con gress last week, had been held up for llth-hour confer ences with GOP wheat belt senators. The administration's willingness to accept "alter native" wheat plans was be lieved to be due, at least in part, to warnings from these legislators that Congress would not accept the Benson plan. The senators apparently feared an all or nothing ad ministration stand might backfire against the GOP in the 1960 elections. The one clearly new propo sal in the program suggested that farmers participating in the soil bank program might be given "payments in kind from out of the existing gov ernment held crop surpluses. Uses Softer Language He recommended an order ly expansion of the soil bank program, under which farm ers take land out of produc tion to hold down surplus out put, from the present 28 mil lion acres to 60 million acres. The President repeated his recommendation for a wheat program which would elimi nate acreage allotments and marketing quotas beginning with the 1961 crop. He also tempt to discredit Finch's claim that his wife was kill ed accidentally after he strug gled with her for possession of a gun. Finch testified he wrested the pistol from his wife and that when he threw it away it discharged acci dentally and the bullet struck Barbara Jean in the back. The prosecutor asked him whether he didn't think so ciety let alone his wife -would disapprove of setting Carole up in an apartment. "I didn't expect the rest of the world would find out about it the way the rest of the world is now," Finch re plied. British Traffic Fatalities Higher London -(UPD-British traffic fatalities last December were the largest in number in any month since the blackout of December, 1941, according to the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation. The ministry said 881 per sons were killed in road acci dents last December. This was 185 more than the pre vious December and the high est monthly, toll since the grim December in 1941 when Britain was under almost con stant blackout because of air raids. recommended wheat price supports as a percentage of the average price for the three preceeding years. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From Washington: A terrifying wave of ar- rests is going on in the Do minican Republic, according to reliable reports reaching here. These reports say a spe cial "detention camp" has been built in the countryside outside Trujillo (capital of the Dominican Republic) and the fate of perhaps 1500 per sons herded into it is com pletely unknown. . The persons arrested are reported to have suffered ex treme PHYSICAL ABUSE. They have no communication at all with relatives or friends " on the outside and their names have never been announced by the Dominican government. WHAT'S in the wind? It's like this: The Dominican Republic is ruled by a despot-who, AS LONG AS HE HAS ALL THE GUNS, has supreme power. He can do as he pleases with the lives and fortunes of the people and NOBODY (except somebody with MORE GUNS) can say him nay. That's despotism. What's despotism? It's TOO MUCH POWER in too few hands. A WORD here to the peo ple of Cuba: In your country, one des pot has just overthrown an other. It looks very much at the moment like your new despot may ' be worse than your old one. Among other things, he's flirting with COMMUNISM, which is as cruel a despotism as has ever existed. You'd better turn thumbs down on ALL the despots. They're dangerous. They're as dangerous as an atom bomb in unscrupulous hands f ORE from Washington: 1T x The U. S. senate voted by a decisive majority the other day to increase the federal aid to education that is proposed in a bill pending before the congress to $1,- 834,000,000 (a billion, 834 (million dollars) and to in clude aid for teacher salar ies as well as school construc tion. Under the bill, if enacted into law, the state of Wash ington would get $14,015,000 in federal funds for each of the next two years, Oregon would get $9,435,000 and Idaho would get $4,672,000. FS a lot of money. And- At the first glance, it looks like a GIFT from our gener ous old Uncle Sam. RUT- " It will all come out of the taxpayers' pockets, ex actly as if it were levied by the states. A tax dollar is a tax dollar. It comes out of the pockets of the people. After : it is taken out, it isn't there for the people to spend for themselves. There is, however, this dif- EXTRA CARE UNITED 1 1 1 1 .ii n ei'r t1 'rtrr " i Eisenhower's other recom- mendations called for: Continued use of the I "food for peace program" ference.- The local tax dollar can be spotted and the federal one can't You can SEE the local tax dollar. You CAN'T see the federal tax dollar. IF you don't like the way the local tax dollar is be ing spent, you can do some thing about it. If you don't like the way the federal tax dollar is being spent there isn't much you can do about it. Personally, I think it's better to finance our schools with local dollars than with dollars that are first shipped to Washington and then shipped back to us WITH THE FREIGHT TAKEN OUT. HOLDS FAST even These exclusive Johns-Manville SEAL-O-MAVC AQPtfAlT QflAGLEQ. defy wind and water In an actual test J-M S . C fncfc and water were driven of these shingles for an to 140 miles per nour.,. noi a isd jaicu ... not cuiup leaked through. Here's the secret of this amazing shingle. 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